My first thought was, "Who do you think you are, Texas?" This is not to say I have a thing for Texas. This is to say that fracking requires a lot. of. land. all for itself. Even I know it and I'm not a petroleum engineer. Also this: "Hydraulically fracturing, or fracking, involves extracting gas from rocks by breaking them up with water and chemicals at high pressure and was halted in Britain seven years ago after causing earth tremors."